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...that peopled The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink. Williamson's calling card may have been an eye for artful carnage, but his staying power derives from his ear for the voice of the '90s teen, whom he describes as "a very self- aware, pop-culture-referenced individual who grew up next to Blockbuster in the self-help, psychobabble...
...spiritual aspirations of liberal Jews, rather than revive the Orthodox devotion that was the Kabbalah's original context. Another thing entirely is the empire of Kabbalah Learning Center leader Rabbi Philip Berg, which claims to serve 10,000 students through programs in eight countries. Berg offers a profitable self-help program featuring a regimen of personal "corrections"; devotees like Hollywood producer Sandy Gallin admit its basics are similar to those offered by Deepak Chopra or Marianne Williamson. Yet the center seems simultaneously embedded in a religiosity that verges on the magical. Students learn that just running their eyes over...
...reform program the school administration did adopt system-wide is an Afrocentric self-help regimen marketed by the Efficacy Institute of Lexington, Mass., and embraced by other black-majority school districts. Through a sequence of four-day, $10,500 group training seminars for teachers and staff, the institute hopes to spark school districts to extract better performance from both teachers and students by promoting a greater belief in the power of individuals to succeed no matter what their personal circumstances...
Thanks to the recent surge of self-help and spiritual renewal literature, humor "writers" now have even more fodder with which to antagonize the "battle of the sexes." A grand favorite of this genre is the "girls rule, boys drool" pseudo-feminist text, as well as the male role-reversal counterpart, in which one gender is blasted incessantly in the hopes that the opposite sex will cry, "It's true!" between shrieks of laughter. Two recent addition to these battle, Macho Meditations: Daily Thoughts and Inspirations for Real Men and The Guys' Guide to Guys' Videos: The First Video Guide...
Simplify Your Life with Kids is straightforwardly written, without gimmicks or jargon, and shows some familiarity with the real world. In all this it is an atypical self-help book. Stephen Covey, on the other hand, has the format down cold. His genius is for complicating the obvious, and as a result his books are graphically chaotic. Charts and diagrams bulge from the page. Sidebars and boxes chop the chapters into bite-size morsels. The prose buzzes with the cant phrases--empower, modeling, bonding, agent of change--without which his books would deflate like a blown tire. He uses more...